Favorite Business Tools & Apps 2016

We love all the new apps coming out lately. And we love the ones we have been using for years. Here’s Follow Your Arrow’s favorite apps list:

HootSuite – Hootsuite is a great application for posting to social media on a regular basis. It allows you to post across many different platforms. Just remember though: you still need to log in to social media applications and interact! Listening is even more important than posting!

Tweetdeck – Tweetdeck is for Twitter. It’s a great application for organizing tweets, mentions, etc. Twitter posts move so quickly. And Tweetdeck allows you to keep up.

Evernote – Evernote is a great note taking application. It allows for sharing across different devices. And allows you to attach different files.

MileIQ – MileIQ allows you to track mileage and easily categorize it as personal mileage or business mileage for tax reasons.

Gusto – Gusto is an online program for tracking payroll. It is simple and inexpensive.

DropBox – We love DropBox. You can get it free or upgrade for a small amount yearly. DropBox is a great way to share files (especially big ones) to others or other devices.

Wunderlist – This is great for ‘to do list’ for task management.

Team Viewer – It’s a software for internet based remote access. So I can share my screen with my team even if they are on the other side of the state.

Slack – Slack is a collaboration tool. It’s a great way to communicate between different teams and different team members (without worrying about an email getting lost).

Skype – Skype is a great tool to have conversations if in person isn’t possible.

Mail Chimp – Mail Chimp is an email service that is free. If you upgrade, the cost will depend on the number of contacts you have in the system.

Aweber – Aweber is also an email service. I like the AB split testing they offer. Aweber has a 30 day free trial, then starts at $19/month (and goes up depending on the number of contacts).

Polaris Office – Great app that allows you to pull up Microsoft Office applications.

Log Me In – Great remote access program

Insightly – good CRM (customer relationship management) tool for small business

17Hats – good CRM that has email service attached.

Echosign – Need signatures online (instead of in person)? Echosign can make any document into an online signing document. This is great for any business that does not require a ‘wet signature.’

BaseCamp – This is a project management tool for tracking the progress and keeping everyone in the loop.

LeadPages – We love leadpages for creating landing pages. The best part? They have great analytics in order to optimize your lead page (and get better results).